The Shadow Ring: Put The Music In Its Coffin - VINYL LP

The Shadow Ring: Put The Music In Its Coffin - VINYL LP

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Title:

Put The Music In Its Coffin

Artist:

The Shadow Ring

Label:

Blank Forms

Product Type:

VINYL LP

UPC:

783970982599

Genre:

Rock

Release Date:

2023-10-06

Number of Discs:

1

Additional Details:

Explicit Lyrics

Recorded in summer of 1994 at S.H.P studios (frontman Graham Lambkin's parents' home), the group's sophomore record Put the Music in It's Coffin is a more sinister, saturnine affair than their debut City Lights. From the get-go, the record has a menacing, vile ambience. It's opening track Horse-Meat Cakes, inspired by an anecdote by pulp author Philip K. Dick about how he and his wife subsisted off low-grade pet food when he first arrived in San Francisco, sets the tone lyrically and sonically. Subsequent tracks are filled with Rabelaisian body horror and sinewy, haptic diction. I try to pass out vital organs, convinced that they are waste, intones Lambkin in Heart, Liver & Lungs, before a chorus of detuned guitars kicks in, nearly drowning out the speaker's account of consuming chevaline intestines. Later songs similarly detail vernacular cooking (Caribbean Porridge, about a cornmeal hangover cure), bodily processes (Nocturnal Middle Rumbles, about nighttime defecation), and creaturely conflict (Crystal Tears and Spin The Animal Dial).

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